Hi! I'm Havana

I am Havana Nguyen, a user experience designer and illustrator who loves adventure, creating content, and spreading joy! I've been drawing since I was 3, making websites since I was 12, and I graduated with a BA in International Affairs-- UX design is the perfect union of my love for design, tech, and human behavior. Thanks for visiting my site and feel free to say hi!

My Articles on Medium

Kamikaze

I am the Lead Character Designer for the 2015 Glyph Award Winner for Best Webcomic, Kamikaze! It's a dustbowl cyberpunk story set two centuries after a plague wipes out almost all plant life on earth. We've had two successful Kickstarters, two published books, and over a million pageviews. You can check out our NPR interview here or jump into the story here.

I Share Too Much: True Stories

This is a series of memoir comics from my life. After two years of thinking about publishing this, I went ahead and did it! You can learn about how I went from a shy, socially anxious girl to a social butterfly.

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